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New constraints on the tau neutrino mass and fourth generation mixing

1997/12/15 by John Swain, L. Taylor, Swain, John +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Neutrino Physics Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9712383

2 pages, no figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

arxiv created 1997/12/15 · openalex publication_date 1997/12/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We present new constraints on the mass mντ of the tau neutrino and its mixing with a fourth generation neutrino. From an analysis of the partial widths of tau lepton decays we obtain the following bounds at the 90% confidence level: mντ < 32 MeV and sin2θ< 0.007, where θ describes the Cabibbo-like mixing of the third and fourth generation neutrinos.

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